DeepSeekMath V2 vs Seed-2.0-Lite

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

DeepSeekMath V2 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 66 versus 63. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

DeepSeekMath V2's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 84 against 75. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 64 to 80. Seed-2.0-Lite does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

DeepSeekMath V2 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Seed-2.0-Lite is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for DeepSeekMath V2.

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeekMath V2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Lite only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

63.9

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

65
Terminal-Bench 2.0
52
66
BrowseComp
63
61
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

47.3

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

72
HumanEval
63
45
SWE-bench Verified
45
44
LiveCodeBench
37
51
SWE-bench Pro
45

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

DeepSeekMath V2

68.1

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

64
MMMU-Pro
80
73
OfficeQA Pro
79

Reasoning

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

75.9

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

77
SimpleQA
68
75
MuSR
66
86
BBH
85
75
LongBench v2
76
72
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

61

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

80
MMLU
71
79
GPQA
70
77
SuperGPQA
68
75
OpenBookQA
66
74
MMLU-Pro
73
18
HLE
7
73
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

DeepSeekMath V2

83

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

83
IFEval
89

Multilingual

Tie

DeepSeekMath V2

82.5

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

87
MGSM
87
80
MMLU-ProX
80

Mathematics

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

84

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

80
AIME 2023
71
82
AIME 2024
73
81
AIME 2025
72
76
HMMT Feb 2023
67
78
HMMT Feb 2024
69
77
HMMT Feb 2025
68
79
BRUMO 2025
70
90
MATH-500
81

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeekMath V2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeekMath V2 is ahead overall, 66 to 63. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 64 and 80.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeekMath V2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61 versus 53.9. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeekMath V2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 47.3 versus 41.4. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeekMath V2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 75. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeekMath V2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.9 versus 73. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeekMath V2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.9 versus 55.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, DeepSeekMath V2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 68.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeekMath V2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeekMath V2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeekMath V2 and Seed-2.0-Lite are effectively tied for multilingual tasks here, both landing at 82.5 on average.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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